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A Call for QA Volunteers

This is a call for volunteers for our QA team. The Apache OpenOffice (formerly OpenOffice.org) project has an ambitious plan for our next major release. But for this plan to be successful we need to grow our Quality Assurance (QA) team to keep up with the output from our programmers. The more QA volunteers we have, the more bugs we can find and get fixed for Apache OpenOffice. This work has a direct impact on OpenOffice product quality. It is also fun!

Why volunteer?

Why would you want to help with OpenOffice QA?

We're a fun, international group of testers, of a range of
skills and experience, dedicated to free software and making OpenOffice a
high quality choice for users.

This is a good way to learn about QA and get some practical
experience. This is useful, for example, if you are thinking about
Software Quality Engineering (SQE) as a possible career choice.

Helping as a tester is a good way to "give back" to the open
source community in a way that makes a direct difference in the product,
but doesn't require programming skills.

It is a good way to raise the visibility of bugs in areas that matter to you. For example, maybe you personally are
concerned about bugs that cause problems on the Mac, or bugs that impact
color blind users, or bugs related to bidirectional text.
Participating on the QA team is a good way to ensure that areas of
personal interest work right.

We have tasks for volunteers with a range of skills. From
novices who can help with manual testing and fix verifications, to
experts who can help with our test automation framework, we have a full
range of QA activities.

As an extremely popular open source product, with many millions
of users, there are opportunities here to do some new and exciting
things on the QA front. We're a laboratory for new ideas and approach to QA.

What does QA do?

QA activities within the Apache OpenOffice project include:

Reviewing incoming bug reports from users to see if the reported issues can be reproduced

Verifying bugs that the developers say they have fixed, to confirm that they actually have been fixed

Review our self-paced orientation modules to help you get started. If you are already familiar with open source
development at Apache, then you can quickly skim over the Level 1 and Level 2 modules and concentrate on the Introduction to QA module. If, however, you are new to Apache, and want a more methodical approach to getting started, then you can start at Level 1 modules first.

I just want to download Open Office. I don't know what a mirror site is, I don't know what to do when the website changes to Korean (I live in South Korea), all I want is to GET open office.
How do I DO that?

I was participating in a BBST class. I was listing risks for Insert/Table. I was completing some exploritory testing to find boundaries in the table columns. I held down the up arrow on the column field and the climb stopped at 1,134 columns. When I clicked 'ok' the image on the page is one black box. I did not recieve an error message in regards to the columns being too numerous for the page spacing. My expected result was very small columns as I had put a 99 in the field and my return was 99 columns. Possibly and error message should fire when the number of columns exceeds the page width.

I'm hoping that I can open docx files for printing eventho' there is a primitive version of word on this computer.
I'll give a positive feedback in anticipation if it can be done .. or you may deduce the alternative if not!! Jim : ) ,' ) ; )

Hi
Does the Word in Open Office has the feature of Adding References to Documents which then appear as s serially numbered foot notes such that if additional footnotes are inserted then the serial numbers of all following references is increased accordingly...?
Look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Saeed

I've used MS Word for years but one day, while trying to clean up my Disk, made a mistake and unwittingly deleted it. That's how I came to download OO in the first place. I generally like Open Office. I've used it for several months previously and have had very little in way of problems with it. It does seem to take a long time in opening, but this may not be due to program itself. I'd like to see a more fully equipped tool bar and one which had a better description of what's available
M.C.